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  • Self-driving car is powered by "Tiger"

    07/21/2005 10:53:32 AM PDT · by Panerai · 33 replies · 789+ views
    Macworld.co.uk ^ | July 21, 2005 | Jonny Evans
    Apple technology drives a new fully-autonomous vehicle developed for a major US competition. Team Banzai is one of just 40 teams (selected from 118 entrants) from around North America to have made it through to the semi-finals of the 2005 DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Grand Challenge. DARPA is the central research and development organization for the US Department of Defense (DoD). Tiger is the tank The team has developed it's Tiger-powered customized Touareg car (dubbed "Dora") using Mac OS X technologies for the entire development and race management for the attempt. Power Mac G5's running OS X inside...